Friday, April 14, 2023
Commentary: Rural America Needs Permitting Reform
If something isn’t farmed, mined, or manufactured it can’t exist. And if a burdensome, archaic, and overly bureaucratic permitting scheme doesn’t allow America to farm, mine, or manufacture, we risk the detriment of our economy. That’s why the new House Republican Majority responded with H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.
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Farming is bad for the planet.
ReplyDeleteGrowing pretend-gasoline though is GOOD for the planet, so all people that starved to death can put ethanol in their cars and feel good about 'saving' the planet.
I am convinced the CCP is behind radical environmentalism. They're rewarding useful idiots for making it impossible to mine, farm, or manufacture in the U S. Huge wins for China.
ReplyDeleteThe nonprofit that did the study that determined gas cooking stoves caused childhood asthma, the Rocky Mountain Institute, has offices in Colorado, New York, Washington DC, Oakland, CA and Beijing, China.
DeleteThe mission is simple. Destroy the American economy while providing more energy for our enemies. All under the guise of the New Green Deal.
Fat chance this has of passing.
ReplyDeleteBack when I was in the busines and kept track of such things, the plethora of agencies all with their permits and related fees added project delays measured in years and easily 24% of the project's cost.
ReplyDeleteMany projects were either broken into phases (artificial construct solely due to regulatory pressures, as opposed to market capacity) or were put on the back burner, or quit altogether.
For individuals wanting to expand or otherwise develop their own property, it could easily be a decade to work through the permit process. Not unheard of was the first permits would expire before the last permits could be gotten. Think of the lost revenue. Too, failure to timely complete the byzantine permit process could act to devalue the land; potential buyers would shy away after knowing the process was too expensive in time and money.
Sharp eyed investors would swoop in to pick up at steep discounts such 'emcumbered' parcels. Then they too would find themselves stymied by the permit process. The cycle repeats. Whole plats may never be developed. This is true for residential and industrial projects.
HR1 address only the federal side, then likely only somewhat.
(And that assumes the Act is not just showboating. The Act should also include criminal penaties for any person who attempts to sidestep the intent of the Act.).
States and local jurisdictions can have their own process just as onerous as federal.
Check the Venona Papers. Since the early 1960s, the Soviets have financially and otherwise supported the anti-nuke, anti-war, and environmental movements as a means of diminishing American power in the world.
ReplyDeleteTheir support of capturing education policy from the university level down has been VERY successful.
John in Indy
John, you mentioning emthe edumakashun system reminds me. Dept of Interior (USFS, USF&G, BLM, et al), and the state agencies are crammed full of environazis.
DeleteSo very often (actually par for the course) is ideological stooges writing or directing policy regulating industries they know jack squat about. Ask any commercial fisherman, farmer, rancher, woodsman and they'll tell ya.
The universities are indoctrinatiion centers. They stamp out carbon copies of the professors who have been so long out of the field, if they ever had been at all, but so full of their academic brilliance that they are assured they know far better than a 5th, 6th, 7th generation producer.
This shit is so ubiquitous that what I've typed is known by just about everyone throughout society even to them who haven't been in those industries.
We all suffer since we all need to eat and products from those industries are basic to life itself.
When I commercially fished, I sat in many meetings with various regulatory agencies. You've never heard someone drone on for hours, peppering their speech with buzz words, yet saying nothing at all. Meanwhile, they go forward with their disastrous plans even while they say they have paused.
Well over $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars) before you can put a shovel in the ground to start to build a nuclear power plant - even just a little one. All spent studying, permitting, and convincing bureaucrats that you are not going to waste your money building and operating an unsafe plant.
ReplyDeleteWait - what?
Hang on because it is going to get freaky.
How can Good(TM) neighbors, deny their Good(TM) neighbors, the Right(TM) to bank as much duly internationally recognized Money(TM) as they can get? To ship local resources over there?
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